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Harold Leventhal

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Harold Leventhal

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Prior offices
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Personal
Birthplace
New York, N.Y.

Harold Leventhal was a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was nominated to that position by Lyndon B. Johnson on March 1, 1965 and received his commission to serve on April 7, 1965. He served until his death on November 20, 1979.

Education

Leventhal earned his A.B. from Columbia University in 1934 and his LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1936.[1]

Career

  • Law clerk, Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, Supreme Court of the United States, 1937-1938
  • Law clerk, Justice Stanley Reed, Supreme Court of the United States, 1938
  • Attorney, Office of the Solicitor General of the United States, 1937-1938, 1938-1939
  • Chief of litigation, Bituminous Coal Division, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1939-1940
  • Assistant general counsel, U.S. Office of Price Administration, 1940-1943
  • U.S. Coast Guard Reserve Lieutenant Commander, 1943-1946
  • Staff, Justice Robert Jackson, Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1946
  • Assistant general counsel, U.S. Office of Price Administration, 1946
  • Private practice, Washington, DC, 1946-1951
  • Chief counsel, U.S. Office of Price Administration, 1951-1952
  • Private practice, Washington, DC, 1952-1965[1]

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